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Genesis

A medium close up of a mid 30s male and female couple at dinner party with candles and wine glasses
A male and female couple at dinner party behind a candelabra, both wearing sunglasses. The woman in white leans on the man in a suit.

Synopsis

Lily and her husband Charlie, a couple in their early thirties, quietly fall apart inside a rural farmhouse inherited from Charlie’s father. Lily, an agoraphobic artist haunted by a childhood coma that left her temporarily paralysed, secretly performs ritualised asphyxiation to feel control over her body. Charlie, unable to face his hidden sexuality, seeks anonymous encounters with strangers. Their private compulsions hold their marriage together in a fragile, unspoken equilibrium. This balance fractures when Sam and Hannah arrive next door. Sam, a severe, cult-like presence, and Hannah, his unsettlingly youthful companion, first appear as eccentric but intriguing neighbours. Yet their charm soon curdles. They slip into Lily and Charlie’s routines, testing boundaries, dissolving privacy, and infiltrating their emotional space. A psychological game of mimicry deepens into ritualistic horror as Lily and Charlie’s identities begin to erode. Sam and Hannah exploit the psychological fault lines of their victims, using hidden fears and repressed desires as points of entry. As the distinctions between self and other blur, Lily must confront her deepest fear: losing control of her own body. Sam and Hannah are not simply neighbours - they are fallen angels on the run from the wrath of God.
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Details

Year
2027
Type of project
Features
Running time
110 min
Format
S35 Digital Film
Director
Robert Dee 1st Feature
Producer
Laura Gregory
Co-Producer
Laurence Lynch, John Lofthouse
Executive Producer
Jordan Reynolds
Editor
Robert Dee
Screenwriter
Robert Dee
Director of Photography
Jonathan Nicol, Kenny McCracken
Sound
Matt Wilkinson
Composer
Gwenifer Reymond
Principal cast
Cerys Knighton, Fintan Shevlin, Martin Malone, Emma Kinsey
Other Lead Creative(s)
Christopher Ettridge, Emmanuel Farinre, Neve Lofthouse

Genre

Experimental Horror Mystery

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Post-production

Production Company

Genesis Film Production Ltd

Robert Dee
11 Anemone Lane, Newhaven, East Sussex, BN9 9FG

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